I am working on this thunderstorm from a 5-year-old’s perspective assignment. I got a couple books from the library to see how others do child narrators (real child narrators, not adult narrators looking back on childhood). Thing is, these kids’ voices don’t sound anything to me like stuff I said when I was five.

ETA: why are there so few simple synonyms for "sky" in English? Firmament, wild blue yonder, heavens...all sound heavy-duty.